Improvement in faucets



J. B. GATHRIGHT- Faucet.

No 222,889. .Patentd Dec. 23,1879.

Witnesses. lnuento/Zw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEM ENT IN FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,889, dated December 1879; application filed August 30, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT, of the city of Louisville, county of Jefferson, State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Faucets; and I here by declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this s1.)ecification.

My invention consists in constructing a faucet with acooling-chamber, as hereinafter set forth, and also in so constructing and arranging the parts, as hereinafter set forth, that the liquid may be drawn through the faucet directly from the keg, or indirectly through the cooling-chamber, as may be desired.

By reference to Figure 1 it will be seen that my improved faucet is similar in its general features to the usual long brass beerfaucet, a little greater length being given to it to better accommodate the attachments hereinafter described.

Upon the under side of faucet A, at or near its middle part, two lugs or projections are cast, with holes through them connecting with the interior channels of the faucet. These lugs afford means for securely attaching to the faucet the egress and ingress pipes D and E of the cooling-chamber 0, (see Fig. 1,) and thus connecting the chamber with the faucetchannel.

The cooling chamber is, 'n'eferably, a coil or worm, as shown in Fig. 1, that form affordmg the greatest amount of surface, and hence cooling most rapidly, and also because the liquid passes out of it in the same order as to timein which itenters it-that which has been in the chamber longest, and is therefore coolest, passing out without admixture with the warmer intlowing liquid.

To compel the liquid to pass through the cooling-chamber when being drawn, that part of the faucet-channel between the egress and ingress pipes E and D may be closed either fixedly or with a stop-cock, which may be opened in case it is desired to draw the liquid directly from the keg without allowing it to pass through the cooling chamberQ It is sometimes desirable to draw wholly from the cooling-chamber, at other times directly from the keg and to get theliquid at a temperature to suit still different tasteswe must be able to draw a portion through the chamber and a portion directly from the keg.

To accomplish this I have devised the plan of construction shown in Fig. 2, whereby but one stop or draw cock is necessary. In this.

plan the faucet is constructed with a short secondary channel, F Fig. 2, which connects with pipe E at one end and draw-cock B at r the other. This short channel and the main channel are separated by a partition one-eighth of an inch thick, (more or less,) and the channel-slot through cock B maybe turned into communication with either channel, or away from both, as may be desired. If this slot be turned into communication with short channel F, the pressure of the liquid in the keg operates through pipe D upon the liquid in chamber 0, and forces a discharge from the chamber through pipe E and channel F. On the other hand, if said slot be turned into communication with the main channel, the liquid will be discharged directly from the keg.

The cooling may be very efiectually accomplished by keeping the chamber submerged in a vessel of cold water or broken ice, (see Fig. 1;) and when ice or other better means of producing cold are not accessible the simple old device of a vessel of water placed above and allowed to drip upon the chamber will very favorably affect the temperature of the liquid if drawn infrequently.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A faucet, A, provided with the egress and ingress openings D and E and cooling-chamber O, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The faucet A. with the supplementary channel F and cooling-chamber (J, arranged to operate as herein shown and described.

3. The faucet A, with supplementary channel F, coolingchamber O, and draw-cock B, constructed and arranged to operate as herein shown and described.

JOSIAH B. GATHRIGHT.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. HARBISON, WALTER WALKER. 

